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i appreciate your candor,

i appreciate your candor, though i've never heard hawking called a "shit disturber" before.  did you mean "distributor"?  do you think hawking has a religious agenda or what?

 

nietzsche in "the birth of tragedy" lauds wagner because wagner represents a return to classical religion, or what he calls "dionysian" religion.  through communal religious festivals and gods that are approachable to humans, we can overcome the fear of death, which is one of schopenhauer's requirements for a proper religion.  while of course nietzsche later broke with wagner, one can still see the communal religious trend in later works.  i would recommend julian young's "nietzsche's philosophy of religion."  he goes against the grain of classic nietzsche scholars in saying that nietzsche, while of course anti-christian, was not necessarily anti-religious, and indeed saw that a return to ancient greek religious modes (in a modern context) would be beneficial for mankind's survival and "evolution" (not necessarily in a darwinian sense; nietzsche hated darwin).  it's interesting reading and i agree with many of his interpretations.

there's just one thing baby
that comes from above
when push comes to shove
thank god for self love

--mose allison

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